We would like you to take part in a noticing nature activity five times over the coming week (weather-permitting).
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Five times over the next eight days, go to a natural green space for 10 minutes – this can be your garden, a local park or anywhere with some nature. Use that time to look and listen to the natural world around you.
- Take note of the good things in nature – the things you see, hear or touch, nature’s beauty, the emotions you feel, and reflect on what they mean to you.
- These can be the beauty of small things at any one moment or wider aspects that arise from attending to the diversity and wonder of the natural world around you.
- For example, it could be as seemingly trivial as noticing the song of a robin or movement of a tree in the breeze.
Please try to take part five times over the coming eight days (at least once per day on five days), but you can take part more frequently if you would like. You can repeat the activity in the same place each time or you can choose to do it in different places at different times.
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We will send you a daily email reminder during the week to ask if you’ve been able to take part and for you to enter the 3 good things you noticed in nature.
Thank you for taking part so that together we can discover more about how engaging with nature affects our wellbeing!
Stay safe
- Volunteers are responsible for their own health and safety. As a volunteer, you are under no obligation to participate or continue with these outdoors activities.
- Never undertake any activity if you have concerns about your own or others’ health and safety. If you have any such concerns, you should stop the activity.
- Follow the latest Covid-19 government guidelines on outdoors activity in your area.
- If you are away from your home, it is advisable to carry a fully charged mobile phone in case of an emergency.
- When selecting a location for your activity, please keep to areas that you have permission to access, or that are publicly accessible.
- Consider any particular risks associated with your individual site and whether your individual circumstances and medical conditions expose you to particular risks.
- Think about and take action on what precautions are needed to minimise risks, including wearing appropriate footwear and protection from the sun.
Nature Up Close & Personal: A Wellbeing Experiment is run by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Derby and British Science Association, and is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.